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Cardiac Output (CO) and Systemic Vascular Resistance (SVR) - The Next Vital Signs?
Cardiac Output (CO) and Systemic Vascular Resistance (SVR) - The Next Vital Signs?
• Sepsis
• Anaphylaxis
• Essential hypertension?
• Diabetes?
• Smoking?
• Obesity?
Conditions decreasing CO directly:
Heart
Heart affects
CO and SVR
Bo-Med and
Cardiodynamics work
with impedance change
during systole (-dZ(t).
Cheetah and
Cardiotronic work with
rate of impedance
change during systole
dZ(t)/dt.
CI
90
SI
40
100
HR
80
0 15 30
Minutes
Archer TL and Shapiro A, UCSD, unpublished
In severe pre-eclampsia, MgSO4 and labetalol decrease SVR and increase CO
(data from Aesculon electrical velocimetry)